Slush
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slush \Slush\ (sl[u^]sh), n. [Cf. Sw. slaska to paddle in water,
slask wet, filth.] [Written also {slosh}.]
1. Soft mud.
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2. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
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3. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for
lubrication.
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4. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially
on shipboard.
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5. (Mach.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the
bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of
steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "slush":
avalanche, bathos, big mouth, bleeding heart, blizzard, candor,
clay, cloyingness, communicativeness, conversableness, crystal,
driven snow, effusion, effusiveness, flake, flow of words,
flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flurry, flux de bouche,
flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity,
garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, glop, goo,
granular snow, gregariousness, gumbo, gunk, gush, gushiness,
hearts-and-flowers, igloo, long-windedness, loose tongue,
loquaciousness, loquacity, mantle of snow, maudlinness,
mawkishness, mire, mogul, muck, mud, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby,
namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, ooze,
openness, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, prolixity,
romanticism, scum, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slab,
slime, slip, slob, slop, sloppiness, slosh, sludge, snow,
snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence,
snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath,
snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift,
snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape,
snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, soap opera, sob story,
sociability, spate of words, splosh, squash, sweetness and light,
swill, talkativeness, tearjerker, verbosity, volubility, wet snow,
windiness
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